In a world where traditional 9-to-5 jobs are as passé as flip phones, today’s employment landscape has transformed into a veritable Willy Wonka’s factory of occupational oddities. Gone are the days when job stability meant being shackled to a life of monotony. There are other options. Today’s job market is more like a bountiful buffet of the bizarre. Yet, despite this cornucopia of unconventional careers, many find themselves in a quagmire of employment ennui, unable to snag these seemingly ripe opportunities. Why? It’s not for lack of trying. The issue lies in the sheer audacity and peculiarity of these new-age vocations. From Chief of Flatulence Control Studies to Senior Projectile…
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From Pinnacles to Potties ChatGPT can help you review anything
I don’t write reviews. Especially about mundane things like shampoo, toothpaste, and dental floss. But when I received an email from Walmart, ChatGPT dared me, “I’ll bet you can’t write a short prompt to evaluate anything. Good or bad.” So, I did. In an age where technology seems to be reshaping every aspect of our lives, writers, reviewers, and others who craft words for a living are finding how indispensable tools like ChatGPT are in revolutionizing the way we approach our work. From drafting initial ideas to generating catchy phrases and titles, these tools offer unparalleled support, efficiency, and creativity for people who spend their day writing. In this collection…
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Where’s ChatGPT’s Sense of Humor? AI's Unfunny Reality
If you’re as old as I am (which is pretty dang old) you might remember a simple book of games called Madlibs. The object was simple: the “writer” would taunt the players into blindly supplying nouns, adjectives, names of famous people, etc. with no idea how they were going to be used. The writer would plug them into blanks in a story, and the fun began. It only took 65 years for the concept to migrate into ChatGPT. One of the things I enjoy most about humor writing with ChatGPT is matching pairs of diverse items with unrelated stories. Then sit back and wait for the action. Just Like Madlibs.…
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Does Artificial Intelligence Have a Sense of Humor? How ChatGPT can help improve a humor writer’s process
A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “What is this, a joke?” – ChatGPT’s attempt at writing humor. Does artificial intelligence have a sense of humor? Can ChatGPT change a writer’s process? Particularly humor writing? To the uninitiated, ChatGPT somehow “sterilizes” humor writing. That it’s incapable of understanding and creating entertaining humor. But nothing could be further from the truth. Whether it’s written by a gifted comedy writer or ChatGPT, creating great humor requires mastery of at least three key elements: Irony, Absurdity, and Wordplay. Elements that ChatGPT can’t appreciate…yet. Situations, where the outcome is unexpected or surprising, and can…
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The Wiggle, the Wobble, and the Wink Crime Solving Through Body Language
Have you ever wondered how an FBI agent can walk into a room and immediately nail the bad guy? It’s not just intuition—it’s mastery of body language, a secret weapon in the high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Agents are trained to decipher the subtle nuances of gestures, postures, and expressions that betray criminal suspects’ innermost feelings. This article, “The Wiggle, the Wobble, and the Wink,” uses ChatGPT to pull back the curtain on how the FBI uses body language to catch suspects, turning every interrogation into a psychological chess match. And just to make things fair, it’s given equal time to three different FBI students: Caucasian, Italian, and a…
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